Маленький принц - Глава 15
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The sixth planet was ten times larger than the previous one. He lived on her
The old man who wrote thick books.
- Look! Here the traveler arrived! he exclaimed, noticing
Little prince.
The little prince sat on the table to catch his breath. He is already so much
Wandered!
- Where are you from? the old man asked him.
- What is this huge book? - asked the little prince. - What do you
Are you doing here?
“I am a geographer,” the old man answered.
- And what is a geographer?
- This is a scientist who knows where the seas, rivers, cities, cities,
Mountains and deserts.
- How interesting! - said the little prince. - This is the present
case!
And he looked at the planet of the geographer. He had never seen yet
Such a magnificent planet!
“Your planet is very beautiful,” he said. - Do you have oceans?
“I don't know that,” the geographer said.
“Oh, oh ...” the little prince said disappointedly. - And the mountains
There is?
“I don't know,” the geographer repeated.
- And cities, rivers, deserts?
“And I don't know that either.”
“But you are a geographer!”
“Exactly,” said the old man. - I am a geographer, not a traveler.
I am terribly lacking travelers. After all, not geographers keep an account
Cities, rivers, mountains, seas, oceans and deserts. The geographer is too much
An important person, he has no time to walk around. He does not leave his office.
But he accepts travelers and records their stories. And if
One of them will tell something interesting, the geographer leads
Inquiries and checks whether this traveler is decent.
- What for?
- Why, if the traveler begins, in geography textbooks
Everything will be mixed up. And if he drinks excess, too, trouble.
- And why?
- Because the drunkards are doubled in the eyes. And where in fact
One mountain, the geographer will celebrate two.
- I knew one person ... Bad would come out of him
Traveler, - remarked the little prince.
- It is very possible. So, if it turns out that the traveler -
A decent person, then check his discovery.
- How do they check? Go and watch?
- Oh no. This is too complicated. Just demand that
The traveler presented evidence. For example, if he opened
Great mountain, let it bring large stones from it.
The geographer suddenly became excited:
“But you are a traveler yourself!” You appeared from afar! Tell
To me about my planet!
And he opened the thick book and cleared the pencil. Stories
Travelers are first recorded with a pencil. And only after
as a traveler will present evidence, you can record it
The story with ink.
“I'm listening to you,” said the geographer.
“Well, it’s not so interesting for me there,” said the little prince.
- Everything is very small for me. There are three volcanoes. Two act, and one
For a long time went out. But you never know what can happen ...
“Yes, everything can happen,” the geographer confirmed.
- Then I have a flower.
“We do not celebrate flowers,” said the geographer.
- Why?! This is the most beautiful!
- Because the flowers are ephemeral.
- How are it - ephemeral?
- Books on geography are the most precious books in the world -
The geographer explained. “They never become obsolete.” After all, this is very rare
The case that the mountain moves away. Or to make the ocean dry. We
We write about the things of eternal and unchanged.
“But the extinct volcano can wake up,” the little prince interrupted.
- What is ephemeral?
- the volcano or acts, it does not have a geographers for us
meanings, ”said the geographer. - One thing is important: mountain. She does not change.
- What is ephemeral? - asked the little prince, who, since
Having asked the question, he did not calm down until he received an answer.
- This means: the one that ow